Standing with Stones DVD

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sam S
sam Jan 28, 2008 23:54:06
Replying to Michael Bott

hi

Not seen the dvd (yet) but have always thought that it either was, or was supposed to represent a (living) tree. The way it just shines when you go in, and is so soothing to the touch, the fact that it doesn't have that "damp" feel that so may stones in tombs have. I've always been glad that when the Museum of Wales took the carved stone, that they left the tree stone.

Of course those are just my thoughts, but when they first excavated/broke in; "he crept forward on his hands and knees along the dreary vault, when lo! In a chamber at the further end a figure in white seemed to forbid his approach. The poor man had scarcely power sufficient to crawl backwards out of this den of spirits as he imagined".

Didn't work though, he still went back and pulled it down, to find a pile of bone lying near it.

sam

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jan 29, 2008 09:33:16
Replying to sam

Hi Sam,

"he crept forward on his hands and knees along the dreary vault, when lo! In a chamber at the further end a figure in white seemed to forbid his approach. "

Can you tell me where this comes from? If it dates from 1865 and the first excavation it's intriguing as it echoes Emmeline Fisher's lines on the opening of Silbury.

"Bones of our wild forefathers, O forgive,
If now we pierce the chambers of your rest,
And open your dark pillows to the eye
Of the irreverent day! Hark, as we move,
Runs no stern whisper down the narrow vault?
Flickers no shape across our torch-light pale,
With backward beckoning am? No, all is still."

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